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How do I learn about cybersecurity?
| Around 3/4 of it is 'configure your stuff correctly'. For that one needs to know what they work with and how components of a solution connect and interact with each other, be it hardware, software, modules or drivers, interfaces, couplings and connectors, and various combinations of these. Identifying these joint points is where most evil happens.
Do not seek books or courses for this. Start with known and classic security problems and how they were fixed and dealt with.
| Practice breaking into things, learning why you could break in, and figure out how to fix it
| >>142588 IMO the best way is learn hacking a bit. You'll get know about alot of methods and get a bit more deep info about them. And try to google more, i'm absolutely sure that there is much books and other things about that, that's too much intresting theme to not have any books about it.
| Most of it is knowing how to not break shit and how to configure things right. Or, if you get into SAP Security, it's just making sure the right person has the right access within an SAP System.
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Do you network wizards still suffer from things like wireless hiccups, ports not working when they should, and general network gaming trouble? Or has your knowledge made all of those situations resolved for you?
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Yes we do. Wireless suffers the most from those things as there are more factors that influence the network. In wireless there is a lot more network noise from devices that are not part of the network pairing. In an area there can be 100 devices, say 5 AP each with 18 paired devices. Yet all see them all, but they drop all what is not their data while potentially each can become part of any of that structure. Add there interference, drols and retransmits and it gets noisy.
| The same thing happens also with wired devices but to a much less degree.
Most of these anoyances come from hardware and are solved in hardware. Switches are central to this. A network interface can also be thought as a single port switch coupled tightly with a router, such welding layer2 and layer3 traffic together. Bad/cheap hw can suffer from exessive frame retransmits/collisions/drops and need a moment to recover from that. The more devices in a network, the more these occur.
| As a rule of thumb, wired beats wirelss at any moment in every aspect. The strong point of wireless is exactly lack of wires which simplifies devices becoming part of the network. But if it is low latency, hi speed, stability, security, network robustness, it is wired connections what you want.
| ok what else
| >>144587
I'd always wondered what other factors I was missing. I live in a crowded building now with fairly inconsistent speeds on our router some days. Yet my parents wireless connection out in the country has always been fairly good. Nothing beats cable internet in the early 2000s though. Beforw the great web migration.
| Biggest threat in computer security is human (Password and Social engineering). The second is flaw implementation of a system (hardware, software). Best place to learn is doing CTF, learn how to protect urself against social engineering. Both of these thing are easy to find on a goofle search.
Also a yt channel called computerphile has videos on alot of stuff from AI to security. Check them out if you want.
| Good practice is instead of thinking : "how to use this", you have to think : "how could I exploit this".
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| I study computer engineering and well, I need to know which area I should be more knowledgeable in than others, so can anyone recommend me a book or something I can learn about cybersecurity on a serious level from?